Sexism in remote collaboration in student teams

Anna Agafonova; Cornelia Connolly; Nicola Marsden

doi:10.1145/3196839.3196868

Sexism in remote collaboration in student teams

Anna Agafonova
, Cornelia Connolly
, Nicola Marsden

Education

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Abstract

Computer-mediated communication is increasingly used in student interactions. Since this mode of communication loses none of the socio-cultural complexity that shapes face-to-face communication, gender and sexism is an important factor. We studied three student teams in an international classroom setting that used computer-mediated communication to collaborate on an IT project. Through the analysis of their chat logs we gained insights into the students' gendered and gendering interactions. We found indicators of sexism and noticed that both male and female students were using gendered language. We suggest further research on how to keep students from reifying the gendered status quo in their virtual collaboration.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	183-189
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450353465
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3196839.3196868
Publication status	Published - 14 May 2018
Event	4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018 - Heilbronn, Germany Duration: 14 May 2018 → 15 May 2018

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Heilbronn
Period	14/05/18 → 15/05/18

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 5 Gender Equality

Keywords

Computer-mediated communication
Gender
Online teaching

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Agafonova, A, Connolly, C & Marsden, N 2018, Sexism in remote collaboration in student teams. in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 183-189, 4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018, Heilbronn, Germany, 14/05/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3196839.3196868

Sexism in remote collaboration in student teams. / Agafonova, Anna; Connolly, Cornelia; Marsden, Nicola.
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 183-189 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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